Appena uscito il volume di T. Ozaki, M. Sigrist, S. Tang con la pubblicazione di 1200 testi neo-sumerici inediti della Rosen Connection Texts presso the Yale Peabody Museum alla Yale Collection.
Prezzo: Euro 45.00
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the 34th volume of the Series Nisaba. Studi Assiriologici Messinesi, of the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations (DICAM) of the University of Messina (Italy), of which I have the distinction of being Scientific Director after the retirement of Prof Francesco Pomponio:
Tohru Ozaki – Marcel Sigrist – Sergio Tang, The Rosen Collection Texts at the Yale Peabody Museum, NISABA 34, DICAM, Messina 2023
ISBN 979-12-81427-26-6
Pages: vii- 384 p., format 30 x 21 cm
Price 45 €
The book presents editions of 1204 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Rosen Babylonian Collection at Yale University. All the texts date from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100-2003 BCE); the majority of them originate from Umma, the remainder from Puzriš-Dagan, and Ĝirsu/Lagaš. Most of the Neo-Sumerian economic tablets in the catalogue of the Rosen Babylonian Collection were purchased at Sotheby Auctions by Jonathan P. Rosen, who later donated them to the Yale Babylonian Collection.
The publication of such an extraordinary number of previously unpublished economic texts is an exceptional contribution to a better understanding of the organization of the Neo-Sumerian economy and society through the careful records of trade, payment to workers, donations to temples, etc. Among the different types of texts here published, there are some categories that stand out: records of animals’ transfer, primarily sheep, but also oxen, goats, donkeys, mules, pigs and birds; donations to temples, especially of sheep and other animals for offerings to deities; payments to workers; receipts for food especially barley, beer and flour; records of dead animals (mainly sheep and goats, but also, cows, pigs, donkeys and gazelles); transfers and receipts of garden products, as well as of wood, baskets, reeds, herbs, bitumen, clothes, leather, copper and silver; trade; receipts for wool; messengers’ rations, just to name the most common types.
The edition here presented is the result of the cooperation between Tohru Ozaki, Marcel Sigrist, and Sergio Tang. Sigrist originally read 709 texts, to which Tang added 495 more texts in 2018. From 2022 to 2023, Dr. Klaus Wagensonner photographed the tablets and made them readily available for viewing on the Internet (https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search).
The book can be ordered directly from the DICAM emailing to: amministrazione.dicam@unime.it
see also the CRIEVOA (Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sull’Economia del Vicino Oriente antico) website:
The Authors:
Tohru Ozaki (1944) received his PhD from the Graduate School of the Rissho University (Tokyo) in 2000. He was a professor at the University of Shizuoka (Japan), retiring in 2009.
Marcel Sigrist (1940) studied at the University of Strasbourg 1958-1960 and the École Biblique in Jerusalem 1969-1972. He was a student at Yale (USA) from 1972 to 1976 (PhD in Assyriology) and a professor at the École Biblique (Israel) from l976.
Sergio Tang (1995) received his BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale finished his MA in 2021.